Board Member Stephen A. Ross

Franco Modigliani Professor of Financial Economics

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Mr. Ross has been the Franco Modigliani Professor of Financial Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1998.

He also has been chairman and CEO of Compensation Valuation Incorporated, a company specializing in option valuation-related issues since April 2003.

He previously was the Sterling Professor of Economics and Finance at Yale University from 1976 to 1998, and a professor of Economics and Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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